John Duncan, American by origin, though stateless resident of countless countries (over six years in Japan, six months in Sweden, more than a decade in Italy, while maintaining citizenship in the strange kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland) distills his experiences in ways that go far beyond the limits of sound-art. Late-Actionism, then, with a marked attention to aspects of behavior (behaviorism) that unite various civilizations, cutting their historical differences vertically and the geographical ones horizontally, su attitudes to 'listening' that can be expressed -though not necessarily- in sonic form. Strangely, it's in Italian that the word 'listen' implies both 'hearing' and 'sentiment', while the concept of 'feeling' is nonexistent. To understand more fully, we return to Something Like Seeing in the Dark conceived by Duncan with LeiffElggren. Among the massimeespressionicontemporanee, the research of John Duncan for over twenty years verifies the psycho-physical limits of the individual, ranging from performance art (with unique events at MOCA (Los Angeles), MAK (Vienna), MACBA (Barcelona), Museum of Tokyo -MOT), to audio installations (most recently at O'Artoteca (Milan), Atlantic Waves (London), The Institute of Contemporary Art - ICA (Boston), Eco e Narciso (Turin), MUTEK (Montreal), the NoorlandsOperan (Umeå), Fylkingen (Stockholm), the Gothenburg Biennial, Quarter (Florence) and Galleria EnricoFornello (Prato), to electroacoustic compositions. From his lengthy discography we point out the recent Nine Suggestions (2005 with Mika Vainio and IlpoVäisänen, a.k.a. Pan Sonic).